Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Parishes and dioceses must move quickly to give life to the consultative bodies and broad participation in mission and ministry already foreseen by church law if the Catholic Church is to have any hope of becoming a more “synodal” church, members of the Synod of Bishops said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, Synodality, World News
After members of the Synod of Bishops approved their final document, Pope Francis announced that he would not write the customary post-synodal apostolic exhortation but would offer the final document to the entire church to implement.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
After a two-day trip to Ukraine Oct.19-20, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore said that U.S. Catholics must thoughtfully consider the implications of recent escalations in the region without succumbing to polarized political discourse.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
The Catholic Church must take concrete steps — and soon — to recognize and empower women’s leadership and ministry in the church, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, told members of the Synod of Bishops.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, deacons, Synodality
Most of the world’s dioceses do not have permanent deacons as envisioned by Vatican II — in fact, the United States alone accounts for almost 21,000 of the some 50,000 permanent deacons globally in the Catholic Church today.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Members of the Synod of Bishops elected Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, and Bishop Alain Faubert of Valleyfield, Quebec, to be the North American members of the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Change in the Catholic Church, including a commitment to recognizing women’s leadership gifts and being more welcoming of all people, happens slowly and deliberately, which is a good thing in a rapidly changing world, said the archbishop of Seattle.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Recognizing the doctrinal authority of bishops’ conferences does not mean allowing them to reject the teaching authority of the pope, but rather to apply church teaching to their unique context, said the head of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
The U.S. delegates at the Synod of Bishops on synodality are contributing to discussions on the future of the Catholic Church by bringing the diversity of the U.S. church to the Vatican, a U.S. synod delegate said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Synodality, World News
Catholics in Asia and Africa have already been leading the way with synodality, two members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis decided the question of ordaining women deacons was not to be discussed at the 2024 Synod of Bishops, and he directed a synod-related study group on women’s ministries not to explore the matter, according to the Vatican’s doctrinal chief.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Even if some members of the Synod of Bishops end up feeling disappointed by the results of the synod, “God’s providence is at work in this assembly, bringing us to the Kingdom in ways that God alone knows,” the spiritual adviser to the synod on synodality told them.
